The Detroit News has a whopper of an editorial today. I would like nothing better than for our President to see the way we have to live in the United States of America in the 21st century.

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If we could suggest a route, we'd start his tour on Detroit's largely deserted east side, past the heaps of rubble that were once businesses on Harper near City Airport, and into the blocks surrounding Denby High School off East Outer Drive, where there are more abandoned homes than occupied ones. But he could throw a stone almost anywhere in Detroit and hit neighborhoods that have been eaten away by cancerous blight.
It would be an invaluable field trip for the president — either today or sometime in the near future — to witness the shocking living conditions in so many Detroit neighborhoods. We can only imagine that he would summon the full force of his administration to get creative in seeking ways Washington could help stimulate a community revival in Detroit and, for that matter, other industrial cities that suffer from urban decay.
Policymakers at all levels should be asking themselves what it must be like for children walking to school past row after row of empty, burned out houses. They should consider the fear and frustration of those waiting at a bus stop darkened by broken streetlights for a bus that may never come. And they should think about the monumental task of rebuilding a city whose deterioration is so thorough.
Detroit, dancing on the edge of bankruptcy, doesn't have the resources to stop the decay, let alone rebuild the city. Michigan, just emerging from a decade-long recession, can't offer much help.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...#ixzz1sP3J0J1z